Galileo Galilei was an Italian renaissance man who made
significant contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and to the
development of the scientific method. He is best known for improving the
telescope to gain better knowledge of the planets and stars.
Galileo sought knowledge from a variety of
disciplines, and his discoveries led him to believe the Earth and planets
revolve around the sun. Although he championed for this belief, it was
challenging because most people during his time believed the Earth was at the
center of the Universe and all planets orbited Earth.
Because of Galileo’s views, he was sentenced to
house arrest for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, he was a central figure in
the scientific Renaissance, and contributed greatly to the scientific
community.
Below
are 19 of Galileo Galilei’s most influential sayings:
1. “We cannot teach people anything; we
can only help them discover it within themselves.”- Galileo Galilei
2. “The sun, with all those planets
revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as
if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”- Galileo Galilei
3. “All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”- Galileo Galilei
4. “I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make
me the first observer of marvelous things.”- Galileo Galilei
5. “The Milky Way is nothing else but a
mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”- Galileo Galilei
6. “Where the senses fail us, reason
must step in.”- Galileo Galilei
7. “Measure what is measurable, and
make measurable what is not so.”- Galileo Galilei
8. “Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?”- Galileo Galilei
9. “You can’t teach anybody anything,
only make them realize the answers are already inside them.”- Galileo Galilei
10. “In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is
not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.”- Galileo Galilei
11. “Knowing thyself,
that is the greatest wisdom.”- Galileo Galilei
12. “To be humane, we must ever be ready
to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.”- Galileo Galilei
13. “The greatest wisdom is
to get to know oneself.” – Galileo Galilei
14. “Two truths cannot contradict one
another.” – Galileo Galilei
15. “The Bible shows the way to go to
heaven, not the way the heavens go.”- Galileo Galilei
16. “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the
night.” – Galileo Galilei
17. “With regard to matters requiring
thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively
they attempt to argue concerning them.”- Galileo Galilei
18. “Mathematics is the language with
which God has written the universe.”- Galileo Galilei
19. “There are those who reason well,
but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.”- Galileo Galilei
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